Estimation of Variance and Covariance Components in Linear Models

C. Radhakrishna Rao

Journal of the American Statistical Association · 1972 · 343 citations · 8 references

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Abstract

Abstract We write a linear model in the form , where is an unknown parameter and ξ is a hypothetical random variable with a given dispersion structure but containing unknown parameters called variance and covariance components. A new method of estimation called MINQUE (Minimum Norm Quadratic Unbiased Estimation) developed in a previous article [5] is extended for the estimation of variance and covariance components.

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